From 80716217891d5ada185c1968d1c5d567dcee40e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jani Nikula Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:08:49 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] emacstips: invoking the external html viewer Rewrite because the information was mostly obsolete *and* we couldn't reach the author of existing text for license change: commit 703ae92a5c0acdbea5384b36b78ea341e0b07da1 Author: Konrad Scorciapino Date: Wed Mar 23 16:20:16 2011 -0300 html rendering Please don't resurrect that text without proper license. --- emacstips.mdwn | 50 ++++++-------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) diff --git a/emacstips.mdwn b/emacstips.mdwn index cd918bd..484d5ca 100644 --- a/emacstips.mdwn +++ b/emacstips.mdwn @@ -334,51 +334,13 @@ useful to you. ## Viewing HTML messages with an external viewer -The emacs client can display an HTML message inline using either the -`html2text` library or some text browser, like w3m or lynx. This is -controlled by the `mm-text-html-renderer` variable. - -The first option is theorically better, because it can generate -strings formatted for emacs and do whatever you want, e.g., substitute -text inside <b> tags for bold text in the buffer. The library, however -is still in a very early development phase and cannot yet process -properly many elements, like tables and